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"kony" <spam@spam.com> wrote in message 
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> On Fri, 5 Sep 2008 23:46:22 -0700 (PDT), Penang
> <kalambong@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>I need to to know if people with huge capacity SATA hard drives (500GB
>>and up) have the following problem :
>>
>>Bought a new hard drive, install it, formatted the disk, install the
>>OS, use it for 2 months, and then weird things start popping up.
>>
>>The hard drive that I am using is Western Digital's WD6400AAKS -- a
>>640GB hard drive.
>>
>>I bought it to replace my 250 GB drive, which is running out of
>>capacity. I do a lot of video editing.
>>
>>Bought the hard drive back in 2nd of July this year. Install the hard
>>drive into my PC, partitioned it into 2 logical volume (Drive C: and
>>Drive D:) and then install the OS onto it. The OS that I use is Win
>>XP. The HD is formatted under NTFS file system.
>>
>>Drive C: has 30 GB and the rest, about 570GB, falls under drive D:
>>
>>I ran chkdsk (check disk) on both partitions (chkdsk /f /r /x) and
>>there wasn't any error. So I thought I had bought a good drive and was
>>feeling very happy.
>>
>>It runs okay for 2 months, and then ...
>>
>>Sometimes when I start my PC, the PC can't find the drive.
>>
>>Other times, the PC can find the drive, but running extra ordinarily
>>slow.
>>
>>I dropped down to the Command Prompt level, use "chkdsk" again to
>>check what's wrong.
>>
>>The command that I use is still the same "chkdsk /x /r /f" --- to
>>dismount the disk, and to "fix" the disk if there is anything wrong,
>>and to check (recover) bad sector.
>>
>>Long and behold, there _ARE_ bad sectors !!
>>
>>Drive C has 82KB of bad sectors, and Drive D has 288KB of bad sectors.
>>
>>This is a drive that I'd just used for 2 months !! And the
>>manufacturing date (the date stamped on the label of the drive)
>>indicated that it was made June, 2008. In all account, this is a _NEW_
>>drive, and it is developing BAD SECTORS !!!
>>
>>The 250GB drive that I used never gave me any problem. This 640GB,
>>however, worries me !
>>
>>I know that 400KB of bad sector, for a 640GB (actually it's 597GB
>>after formatted) hard drive, is insignificant. But still, bad sectors
>>are still BAD SECTORS, and I am afraid that the bad sectors would
>>spread !!
>>
>>That is why I am posting this message, asking the people who have more
>>experience than me in using huge capacity hard drive --- is the bad
>>sectors common occurrance?
>>
>>Or that I'm just too unlucky to get myself a lemon?
>>
>>BTW, the hard drive is EXTREMELY HOT, not warm, but VERY HOT !!! I do
>>not have the actual temperature in it (I do not know if there is any
>>utility out there that would give me the drive's actual temperature)
>>but when I touch the drive, it was very HOT !!!
>>
>>Please, please help.
>>
>>Thank you !
>
> These are not problems specific to 500GB or larger drives.
> Run the HDD manufacturer's diagnostics, look at your Windows
> Event Viewer to see if any seemingly associated errors are
> logged, and try disconnecting and reconnecting the cables
> (including the motherboard end).
>
> As for the PC not finding the drive, does it have a very
> short POST before trying to boot?  If so, perhaps the drive
> isn't spinning up fast enough, see if there is a bios
> setting for a time period it might wait and set that for a
> couple seconds or more.
>

many years ago that answer cured a problematic drive I had.............